Clever Girl: Jungling as Akali

Clever Girl: Jungling as Akali

akali is a decent jungler, however she is really bad at ganking before 6, especially without ghost.
i jungled akali for a while, and i dont find it really useful because your ganks come really late, you not only have to wait to hit lvl 6, but you also need to wait for shadow dance charges(wich takes a good 2 minutes to get the extra 2) if you want a solid gank.
early ganks can work depending on your team, your lanes need to set up ganks for you, not the other way around, wich sometimes is not possible.

akali is a decent jungler, however she is really bad at ganking before 6, especially without ghost.
i jungled akali for a while, and i dont find it really useful because your ganks come really late, you not only have to wait to hit lvl 6, but you also need to wait for shadow dance charges(wich takes a good 2 minutes to get the extra 2) if you want a solid gank.
early ganks can work depending on your team, your lanes need to set up ganks for you, not the other way around, wich sometimes is not possible.

You exaggerate slightly when it comes to Shadow Dance (it takes exactly 50 seconds after you take the skill to get full charges), but it is true that ganking before level 6 is significantly more difficult.

However, I don't agree that ganking at level 6 comes too late to be effective. When I jungle as Akali I easily hit level 6 around 6:30 game time, and can reach a gankable lane before 7:00. At this point any solo lanes will be level 6-7, and duo lanes will merely be level 4. There are very few champions (or champion pairs) at those levels who can deal with a red buff Akali dancing out of the bush.

I recommend the T3 AD quint not because it is necessary, but because the extra damage helps to reduce the number of auto attacks necessary to kill creeps. Each auto attack you save is also a second of jungling time saved, and every second counts.

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Originally Posted by Frolossus

you're usually better off going fort elixer and health pots to clear the jungle before going back and you will have a higher level of health at all of the camps

I dislike using Elixir of Fortitude not because it isn't effective for jungling, but because it runs out before level 6. If you know for a fact you're going to gank at level 4 or 5 it's a workable option, but otherwise you end up weaker when you go for the kill.

You're only really vulnerable as Akali during your first run through and when you go for Dragon. Otherwise you have plenty of health as well as your Shroud and already jungle extremely quickly. As such, the small benefits of the elixir don't really outweigh the lost gank effectiveness.

Sry i think i need to rephrase my question. As in i understand that when doing jungle armor pen makes more sense but when it comes to your abilities doing dmg to the enemy champs wouldn't magic pen do more dmg?